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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2020-36619

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in multimon-ng. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function add_ch of the file demod_flex.c. The manipulation of the argument ch leads to format string. Upgrading to version 1.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is e5a51c508ef952e81a6da25b43034dd1ed023c07. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-216269 was assigned to this vulnerability.

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  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published